The Comic
"One comes at last to question even the existence of identity as a phenomenon."
It's Alan Moore doing H. P. Lovecraft, so naturally, there will be plenty of nightmarish and often Squicky sights to see within the story.— Elspeth Wade
- Lilith in the basement's cave in Issue 2. A glowing, taloned, naked witch-like figure with a skull face, it chases after Robert while hooting. The skulls of her previous victims, many of them presumably the children Suydam traffics, litter the floor. What makes it all particularly creepy is that no reason is given for why Robert is spared after he falls unconscious.
- Massey suckling her familiar Jenkins, while lecturing Robert nude.
- Twice in issue 5 the borders of the panels change to straight edges as opposed to hand-drawn, which normally occurs when something supernatural is occurring. But there's nothing shown, aside from the viewpoint of the comic being Robert shown through a window: implying something supernatural is watching him.
- Issue 6 shows Robert getting raped by his own body, with his consciousness switched into the body of a 13-year-old girl by a psychotic sorcerer.
- The comic is on the whole incredibly unnerving in its use of panels and control of tone. This makes the supernatural parts, such as the dilation of time that much scarier. Providence is one of the few times you realize how scary reading the Necronomicon is supposed to be.
- Providence 7 reveals that ghouls exist under countless major cities, feeding on the dead and alive alike.
- A montage of all the Stella Sapiente sensing that the prophecy has been fulfilled; the Herald has met the Redeemer, and humanity is officially living on borrowed time.
- Nyarlathothep decides to reward Black for all his help by giving him a blowjob. Robert is a tad too horrified at what he had unwittingly enabled to enjoy it.
- The worst part is that we finally get to see Carcosa's face behind that yellow half-veil covering his mouth, nothing but shriveled reddened flesh in which is a single gaping hole.
